To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.nntpOpen lugnet.admin.nntp in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / NNTP / 493
492  |  494
Subject: 
Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:03:36 GMT
Viewed: 
1904 times
  
In lugnet.admin.nntp, Eric Joslin writes:
[...]
Lugnet is for fans.  Lugnet is not a tool for LEGO.  If LEGO wants to interact
with fans on Lugnet, great!  They can have a whole area unto themselves to do
it.  But to allow them to run rampant throughout Lugnet dilutes the purpose for
which Lugnet was started- fans talking to fans.

Yes!  100%!  What Eric wrote above captures the essence of all of this
splendidly.  A true voice of reason.  I couldn't have said it better myself.
Eric gets it.  Thank you, Eric!  (And Eric Kingsley too, who also gets it
and has made many excellent points on this subject.)

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) "Voice of reason" or just a voice agreeing with you? ( I don't usually associate rhetoric like "run rampant" (and "slime trail", not that Eric said that) as the voice of reason, but hey, that's just me.) Call the question. I think the points (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) So the 2 Erics are the only people that gets it?? Man you must be so happy :)!!! I think they are spewing malarky - LEGO is not talking to us, a few AFOLS that work for lego are talking to us. LEGO can not talk to anybody - they are a company, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings
 
(...) I don't know where you're getting that. (URL) is said about who can start a thread, only who can follow up to a post. (...) Oh, dear, I estimated incorrectly. My point still stands at 1 year 3 months- the group has nothing to do with expecting (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

232 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR